You Missed My Heart

Broke into her house

Saw her sitting there

Drinking Coke and whiskey

In her bra and underwear

Saw him in the kitchen

Hanging up the phone

I asked him nicely once

To pack his things and go

He gave her a reassuring look

Said he wouldn't leave

But I asked him one more time

This time pulled out my sheath

Stuck him in the back

And I pulled it out slow

I watched him fall down

And as the morning sun rose

He looked at me

He said you missed my heart

You missed my heart

You got me good

I knew you would

But you missed my heart

You missed my heart

Were his last words

Before he died

Looking out the window

Up at the blue sky

Listening to her scream

Listening to her cry

A feeling of relief

Came over my soul

I couldn't take it any longer

And I lost control

I chased her up the stairs

And I pinned her to the ground

And underneath the whimpering

I could hear a siren sound

I rattled off a list

Of all the things I missed

Like going to the movies with her

And the way she kissed me

Driving into downtown

Wheeling, showing her off

Backyard barbecues

And reunions in the park

I said I missed her skin

When she started laughing

While I clenched down on her wrist

She said, that's quite a list

But there's one thing you missed

You missed my heart

You missed my heart

That's quite a list

But what you really missed

You missed my heart

You missed my heart

That's quite a list

But what you really missed

Running through the parking lot

Running through the fields

Policemen on my back

Something hit my skull and cracked

They dragged me off to jail

Set a million dollar bail

Where I tried to tie a noose

But I failed and I broke loose

I went racing through the prison yard

Shot down by a tower guard

He got me in the shins

And he got me in the arms

They strapped me in the gurney

Took me off to the infirmary

Where the priest read my last rites

And just before everything went dark

I said, you missed my heart

You missed my heart

He got me good

I knew he would

But he missed my heart

You missed my heart

And just before everything went dark

The most poetic dream

Came flowing like the sea

Laying there, my lifeblood

Draining out of me

A childhood scene

Night sky, moon beams

Fishing with my friends

Sitting in the wild reeds

Watching the Ohio

River flow at night

Waiting for the bull-headed catfishes to bite

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard